B.C.s wineries, breweries say they are not enjoying the GST holiday [Video]

B.C.’s wineries, breweries and spirit producers are speaking out about Canada’s GST holiday.

They say they are not getting the GST break when dealing with B.C.’s provincial government.

“I think one of the biggest takeaways of it is that the governments themselves are struggling to implement the GST holiday properly and the scale of complexity that it would take to change over the government’s internal systems to be able to properly apply the tax reduction is what ultimately they pointed to as the holdup for why they couldn’t implement it properly,” Emily Boston, a senior policy analyst with the Canadian Federation of Independent Business told Global News.

She added that if the government is struggling to implement its own policies, how are small businesses able or expected to comply?

“This is an issue that we’re aware of, and it definitely lays plain just how challenging this is for smaller retailers,” Boston said.

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